MICHIGAN GENERAL CONFERENCE.
THE Michigan General Conference was held with the church at Battle Creek, Oct. 4-6. There were none at this meeting from other States, and not a large gathering of the brethren in Michigan. The short notice, the busy season of the year, and the lack of means with some to pay their pledged shares of stock in the Publishing Association, kept many from this general gathering. The house of worship was comfortably filled with the friends of the cause, who came to act their part in the work. This week's receipts give some idea of the activity of the working hands who attended the conference. Our ministers had unusual freedom in preaching the word, and the social meetings were excellent, especially the general conference meeting on Sunday evening. This meeting held three hours with increasing interest. The time was filled up with short testimonies from many brethren and sisters. A calm, sweet, melting spirit pervaded this meeting making it the best of the kind we ever witnessed. We heard many brethren remark in regard to the conference that it was the best ever held at Battle Creek. With the sweet influence of the meeting upon the minds of the brethren and sisters, they parted Monday morning to go to their several homes. The unity existing among the brethren at this conference, the eagerness to take a decided position upon organization, and the general readiness to sustain the Publishing Association, have greatly encouraged us. We are not, in point of hope, faith and courage where we stood prior to the trials of the last eighteen months, and perhaps we never shall be; but we certainly made rapid progress during the three days of our conference.